Category: Oil Paintings
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Yosemite Valley
This painting was the result of a trip to Yosemite National Park last summer. Within the square canvas, I was striving for a circular composition. The dark green of the valley forest and the darker upper sky forms a ring around the lighter, cooler space between the granite cliffs. It was challenging to create…
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A pause for a moment of togetherness
I recently had the honor of completing this commission for a guy who wanted to give a girl a Christmas gift that would commemorate her treasured memories of baseball games spent with a beloved grandfather. The view of the field is from their usual seats when watching games together.
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Hobbit Hill
Another plein air painting on a hillside near my studio that my husband and I always joke is our own hobbit hill…
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The Cove
Working to improve my efficiency with colors and values, I have been working on these smaller plein air paintings. I want to be able to quickly and effectively give a sense of the space of a scene.
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Stand
Here is another little plein air painting I completed this summer at Spring Mill State Park in Indiana. It was a hot, humid, 90-degree day, hence the intensity of the light on the field behind this stand of trees.
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Riverwalk in progress
I did this little plein air painting on a foggy day at Jasper’s Riverwalk this past summer. The fog was lifting as I finished blocking in the masses, so the result does not quite have the atmospheric quality I thought it would when I started the painting.
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Tuolumne Meadows
The work starts with graphite sketches where I find I can more easily design compositions using the small scale and a pencil. Using a grid helps me to transfer the lines that I want to the large canvas and not lose the the grace of the sketch.